Sofon Guided Solutions

Sofon Guided Solutions Übersicht

Sofon Guided Selling is sales support software for companies selling customer specific products or services. Thanks to input from our customers, Sofon Guided Selling is a standard package that is being used by all of our customers to satisfaction. Because Sofon is standard software, it can be implemented with a fraction of the time and effort usually required for custom systems with similar capability.

Sofon Sales Configurator
Are you looking for a solution that will greatly enhance and extend the existing product configuration, calculation and visualization functionality in your current ERP or CRM solution? Sofon Sales Configurator will offer your organization the support needed in these areas.

Sofon Studio
Sofon Studio is the management module for all information that is used in Sofon Proposal Organizer and Sofon Sales Configurator. This information, including costs, configuration and calculation rules, visualization rules, texts, illustrations etc, is transparently and easily stored in Sofon models.

Sofon Sales Organizer
Sofon Sales Organizer offers all functionality you may expect from robust CRM systems for customer driven businesses. In case you already use a CRM system, or you prefer another CRM system such as Microsoft CRM, Salesforce or Siebel, your system of choice will easily work with Sofon.

Sofon Case Organizer
Sofon Case Organizer offers a combination of file management and workflow, employing a unique concept in which it is not the organization but the file that is central.

Unbeaten in ease of use and value for money!

The product data and rules are maintained by the people that have the knowledge, not by it-people. Though 'off-the-shelf', the tool is highly flexible and easy to use. We could not perform without it.

Vorteile

The Aebi Schmidt Group (www.aebi-schmidt.com) manufactures outstanding, world-wide-distributed agricultural, municipal and special equipment.
With a customized range of products and services we offer our customers appropriate solutions for almost every problem.

All our products (silo spreaders, snowploughs, snow clearing machines, compact sweepers, mounted sweepers, implement carriers, transporters and mowers) are configurable, from a few options to many highly complex options with multi-level dependencies and calculations. We use Sofon to maintain and spread the product knowledge amongst all our sales offices all over Europe. With Sofon a salesman is able to make a good-looking quotation in a short time without much product knowledge. Sofon supports the whole quotation process, and when a quotation becomes an order, a sales order and the complete bill of material and routing is created in our ERP system (SAP). Changes are handled too.

Nachteile

no real Cons

Verteilung der Bewertung

Bedienkomfort

Kundenbetreuung

Vincent Snels

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Sales staff makes 90% of quotations without the help of Engineering

Bewertet am 30.11.2012

Quelle der Bewertung: Capterra

With Sofon our quotations are of excellent quality, both in terms of contents and lay-out.

Vorteile

MarFlex is a developer and manufacturer of electrical deep well pumps for the shipping and offshore industries. The abundance of options and combinations made it difficult for the sales staff to provide an accurate quotation quickly; they often needed the help of our Engineering department. We searched for a provider who could meet all of our needs and Sofon turned out to be the best option for us. After an implementation of six months, we went live with Sofon. With Sofon, Sales no longer requires the help of Engineering for 90% of quotations. Sofon makes sure we do not make any errors and offer the correct combination to our customers. We are extremely pleased with the results we achieved with Sofon. Our quotations are of excellent quality, both in terms of contents and lay-out. We often simply copied text from old quotations and spend time at checking through the text. Now we know Sofon is always right. We no longer have to read through it and can send it off with confidence.

Nachteile

No major Cons.

Verteilung der Bewertung

Bedienkomfort

Kundenbetreuung

Marion Kant

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Our price agreements with our various customers are now clearly defined

Bewertet am 1.5.2013

Quelle der Bewertung: Capterra

E. van Wijk Logistics is an international logistics service company with branches in the Netherlands, Romania, Moldavia and Ukraine. Before Sofon our quotations and calculations were produced manually in Excel. This was time-consuming and prone to errors; it was for example easy to forget a change in rates. This is why we wanted to simplify the way the rates were put together. We also wanted more insight into client-specific rates and outstanding quotations. We now make use of the Sofon Sales Organizer (CRM package) and the Sofon Proposal Organizer (quotation generator). We use Sofon to quickly produce uniform and error-free quotations, including the accompanying calculations. Our price agreements with our various customers are now clearly defined and our price adjustments are greatly simplified. Sofon also offers us insight into the quotations we have issued to date and the effectiveness of our sales reps.

Vorteile

Quickly produce uniform and error-free quotations
Offers insight into the quotations we have issued to date and the effectiveness of our sales reps
Price agreements are now clearly defined and our price adjustments are greatly simplified

Nachteile

no real Cons

Verteilung der Bewertung

Bedienkomfort

Kundenbetreuung

Robert

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All the Sofon-users in our company are very pleased

Bewertet am 8.4.2013

Quelle der Bewertung

Voortman develops, manufactures, installs and maintains CNC controlled processing machines for the steel fabricating industry and steel service centers. Because of our growing international clientele, we were looking for a complete sales support system. Sofon turned out to be very complete, so we use all of Sofon: from CRM to quotation generation ¿ and everything in between. The implementation of Sofon took only a few months. I had expected that we would need far more time, but my expectations were definitely proved wrong. All the Sofon-users in our company are very pleased with the ease of use the system offers. Since the introduction of Sofon we have the years of customer history visible at a glance. We also have a link to and synchronization of our e-marketing package, we have the possibility to manage our opportunities and our management reports are available, thanks to Sofon.

Vorteile

Quick implementation (only a few months)
Ease of use the system
Customer history visible at a glance
Link to and synchronization of our e-marketing package

Robert oude Avenhuis

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Sofon offers Voortman complete sales support system

Bewertet am 8.2.2013

Quelle der Bewertung: Capterra

Voortman develops, manufactures, installs and maintains CNC controlled processing machines for the steel fabricating industry and steel service centers. Because of our growing international clientele, we were looking for a complete sales support system. Sofon turned out to be very complete, so we use all of Sofon: from CRM to quotation generation and everything in between. The implementation of Sofon took only a few months. I had expected that we would need far more time, but my expectations were definitely proved wrong. All the Sofon-users in our company are very pleased with the ease of use the system offers. Since the introduction of Sofon we have the years of customer history visible at a glance. We also have a link to and synchronization of our e-marketing package, we have the possibility to manage our opportunities and our management reports are available, thanks to Sofon.

Vorteile

quick implementation
ease of use the system
customer history visible at a glance

Zusätzliche Informationen für Sofon Guided Solutions

Schlüssel-Features von Sofon Guided Solutions

Error-free and consistent quotations and contracts

Higher scoring rates

Lower sales cost

Shorter sales cycles

Vorteile

In short
- With Sofon you easily produce error-free, well-presented proposals
- With Sofon you generate quotations and commissions more rapidly
- With Sofon you control your sales process from contact to contract
- Because of Sofon, all your orders are complete and feasible

Sales
Sofon Guided Selling helps sales departments maximize their sales opportunities and better manage the sales process as a whole. Dealers and other agents can also depend on problem-free sales of new and existing products and services and will need less support. All that with fewer risks in less time. Sofon makes sure of:

Marketing
Sofon Guided Selling offers extensive report and selection possibilities. In this way, marketing can be targeted and so undertaken more effectively.

Furthermore, Sofon Guided Selling makes sure that all documents are always presented in the correct house style. If changes are needed, they can be made easily in all documents generated in Sofon with a simple command. Thus, a correct and uniform image is guaranteed at all times. Sofon takes care of:

Management
A company’s continuity is determined by the factors of predictability and liability, apart from a healthy business model. Sofon contributes directly to the predictability of turnover and related income by making sure of insight into outstanding tenders and orders.

Because only feasible products and deliverable services are offered and contracted, the risk of product liability decreases considerably. And because only correct offers are made, margins are ascertained beforehand for every order. In this way, you completely fulfill client expectations. Sofon takes care of:

Cost reduction - costs, margins and turnover are immediately clear
Predictability - fewer overhead costs because sales reps produce their own offers
Less risk - less chance of mistakes (product liability, cost of returned products)
Teamwork - improved cooperation between sales, development and production
Image - consistent, professional communication
Control - authorization of important sales decisions